Uncle Samuels Whistle and what it Costs1864 - 45페이지 |
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... Never shall I forget that memorable morning , when , with miniature dash - pot in one hand , and gilt - edged copy of " Mariotte's Law " in the other , I made my final effectual appeal to the Secretary of the Navy . Like an oracle I ...
... Never shall I forget that memorable morning , when , with miniature dash - pot in one hand , and gilt - edged copy of " Mariotte's Law " in the other , I made my final effectual appeal to the Secretary of the Navy . Like an oracle I ...
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... never made the least difference in the operation of the piston . Will you , then , be stayed on the noble road of progress by the voice of a quack and a beast , a knave and a wretch- A villain , A cut - purse of the empire and the rule ...
... never made the least difference in the operation of the piston . Will you , then , be stayed on the noble road of progress by the voice of a quack and a beast , a knave and a wretch- A villain , A cut - purse of the empire and the rule ...
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... never flagged . Regularly , as did the angels upon Jacob's ladder , the boys , with their oil cans , as- cended and descended . Regularly the link - men tugged at their wheel . Regularly the hammers rose and fell . Never were heroic ...
... never flagged . Regularly , as did the angels upon Jacob's ladder , the boys , with their oil cans , as- cended and descended . Regularly the link - men tugged at their wheel . Regularly the hammers rose and fell . Never were heroic ...
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... bars , and trip the valves ! " This time success . The link arose , with unearthly shrieks and groans ; and the engine was stopped , as if never to move again . Going on Watch . Coming off . The black bottle being empty , we all drew a. 23.
... bars , and trip the valves ! " This time success . The link arose , with unearthly shrieks and groans ; and the engine was stopped , as if never to move again . Going on Watch . Coming off . The black bottle being empty , we all drew a. 23.
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... never blows his own horn . He said once , that he ' was profoundly ignorant of a steam - engine , and supposed a cylinder- head to be a full moon . ' That was modesty ! No one , who has ever heard our cylinders work , would credit it of ...
... never blows his own horn . He said once , that he ' was profoundly ignorant of a steam - engine , and supposed a cylinder- head to be a full moon . ' That was modesty ! No one , who has ever heard our cylinders work , would credit it of ...
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1st of January adaptation arm chair bang beheld black bottle boiler BOOK DUE brazen dash-pot Byron Captain City Hall click-up cloud coal cogs commenced companion Continental contractors Corlear's Hook cost coyness crash cylinder cylinder-head dash Diddle dol drank engine-room entire fair to calculate firemen Forbes genius gine gleam gold handspikes HARVARD COLLEGE heard Hebrew Melodies heroic injection-valves intellect intuitive knowledge Isherwood James Watt Jerome Jerome's yacht link-motion Lord Byron's Mariotte's Law Mattingly metal minutes monkey-tail Navy Department never noble novel machinery Pensacola piston PLAN PLAN PLAN pots revolutions RIGGS rings of Saturn sail science to double seedy inventor Shakspeare ship small boy splendors of Mars steam yacht stern stone wall stood T. F. Rowland thermometer thing tide tremendous and unparalleled trial trip Uncle Samuel United States Navy vessel Water Commissioners water-valves wheel WHISTLE YACHT CLARA CLARITA
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16 페이지 - What a pity that this man, who was deficient neither in courage nor, we suppose, in a certain amount of intellect sufficient for all ordinary purposes, should have got himself into such a scrape merely for the sake of carrying an election over the Prince of Conti and Stanislaus ! The truth was that...
5 페이지 - ... so long as a man rides his HobbyHorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him, — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
11 페이지 - Pennsylvania, the Middle States, and those that extend westward along the lakes. The remainder I leave to you. Accept these terms, and I lift you at once from the slough of obscurity to the heights of fame. Reject them, and I leave you to chance. 'There is a tide in tho affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
40 페이지 - ... be, and was not again brought into service until the 1st day of June last. " Subsequently the new engine was thoroughly overhauled, rollers were removed, and slides substituted, and, after making several short runs, the engineer in charge closed the house, and left for the city of New York, taking with him the keys of the engine house, to report to his employers. Shortly after this, in the month of August last, the keys of the house were returned to the Secretary of the Board, by express, and...
26 페이지 - I have, indeed, commenced a poeirf about them — in humble imitation of the great engineer's favorite bard. It will be comprised in four hundred cantos, commencing thus: The D n dash-pots are gleaming like gold, And are brimming with oil as full as...
8 페이지 - and "Isherwood's Engineering Precedents;" and mingled with these, divers volumes of poetry and Belles Lettres, showing that their owner, however devoted to science, is yet addicted to occasional indulgence in "Shakspeare and the musical glasses.
8 페이지 - Washington — erected by a considerate posterity for the accommodation of the sculptor — gazed placidly at the City Hall, or seemed to smile upon the comfortable enterprise of those youthful Bohemians who thrive by polishing the boots of respectability. A scene of pastoral innocence and beauty ! Amidst that scene, and near the base of that imposing monument, there stood, on the lovely morning previously referred to, a man.
45 페이지 - ... appertaining to her machinery, except under the direction of Mr. D n. For so small a matter as a bilgepump, which I required, Mr. Rowland informed me that he would be obliged to consult Mr.
9 페이지 - My name, sir, is . My invention is a steam cut-off for application to marine engines." " Sir," said the great man, " you have come to the right shop. My foot is on my native heath, and my name is I) n." The seedy inventor bowed, and deposited his roll of paper upon the table. "Sit, my friend...
15 페이지 - It was, nevertheless, an achievement of magnitude and of difficulty. Prejudice, of deep root and of long continuance, opposed me at the outset. Conventionality, embodied in the form of a naval official, frowned darkly upon the champion of progress, your humble friend. Old ideas of economy — the crude notions of our antiquated forefathers — arose before me, like battle lines in Parisian streets, before the footsteps of Kevolntion.